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He's coming for your floppy: Linus Torvalds is killing off support for legacy disk drive tech

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

"It was only when the C128 came out that they finally relented because drive performance was ridiculously slow compared to the competition"

Atari weren't much better. Floppy drives with speed doubler chip upgrades, Alphaloader etc because the disk drives were pretty slow.

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